re-post: problems umounting samba shares

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 07:18 -0400, Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 07:00 -0400, Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Craig White wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 20:53 -0400, Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>I have an  FC1 box and have had so far little problem in mounting my 
> >>>>samba file systems
> >>>>
> >>>>Eg:
> >>>>\\192.168.100.1\music   /mnt/smb/music  smbfs   
> >>>>_netdev,auto,user,ro,username=,password=        0 0
> >>>>
> >>>>mount /mnt/smb/music will mount the partition with no questions asked.
> >>>>
> >>>>Umounting is a lil bit of a problem though, I get the following error
> >>>>   umount: /mnt/smb/music mount disagrees with the fstab
> >>>>
> >>>>Any ideas, explanations or suggestions?
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>---
> >>>cat /etc/fstab
> >>>
> >>>what does it say?
> >>>
> >>>Craig
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>The example was from my /etc/fstab, but here is its entire contents.
> >>
> >>The samba lines are kinda long and may endup jumbled.
> >>
> >>$ cat /etc/fstab
> >>LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> >>LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> >>none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> >>none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> >>none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> >>/dev/hda2               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> >>/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 
> >>noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> >>/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
> >>noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> >>#Manual samba entries
> >>\\192.168.100.1\trevor  /mnt/smb/home           smbfs   
> >>_netdev,noauto,user,rw,credentials=/home/trevor/.credentials    0 0
> >>\\192.168.100.1\calendar        /mnt/smb/calendar       smbfs   
> >>_netdev,auto,user,rw,credentials=/home/trevor/.credentials       0 0
> >>\\192.168.100.1\mozilla-mail_settings   /mnt/smb/mozilla-settings       
> >>smbfs   _netdev,auto,user,rw,credentials=/home/trevor/.credentials       0 0
> >>\\192.168.100.1\public  /mnt/smb/public smbfs   
> >>_netdev,auto,user,rw,credentials=/home/trevor/.credentials      0 0
> >>\\192.168.100.1\music   /mnt/smb/music  smbfs   
> >>_netdev,auto,user,ro,username=,password=        0 0
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >This might be a red herring, but could you try changing the backslashes
> >to slashes and see if it works any better? I know Windows only works
> >with backslashes in this context, but samba works both ways and a
> >regular slash doesn't have any special meaning that might get
> >misinterpreted.
> >
> >Paul.
> >  
> >
> That just may be it.  The error message changed.
> 
> umount: only root can unmount //192.168.100.1/public from /mnt/smb/public
> 
> Question though, I can mount the share as a user.  How can i umount it?

Unmount it as root this time. Then, after mounting it as a regular user,
try unmounting it as the same user.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>